KAGUYA lunar explorer (aka SELENE) Options

[Rakhir]

SELENE has now a nickname : KAGUYA.
http://www.jaxa.jp/topics/2007/06_e.html

Edit :
And Emily searched for the origin of the name
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000996/

[elakdawalla]

Yeah, QT doesn't work for me either. I wish they had posted these in some downloadable format that I could play with

That pic of the solar paddle that happened to catch Earth in it is pretty neat! nop, could you perhaps help out with translation of that page? Here is what the Google translator produces, which isn't bad; only the last sentence is unintelligible:

It was recognized that the earth has taken in the monitor camera for solar paddle development verification. It is the unusual picture where the earth is visible from the interval of the paddle.
Because the picture is not photographing with HDTV, is not clear, but the position of the satellite and the earth timing it could photograph it is the unusual shot well. In addition, you think that you can be understood the distance of the satellite and the earth.

The day when more and more it is thrown to the month track separated from the orbit around the earth, the truth approached the [gu] and, closely.

It would appear that Google's attempt at transliteration of "Kaguya" is "the [gu] and," which is not as cute as "It is quick the [bu]," its famous transliteration of "Hayabusa."

--Emily